“Steve Jobs doesn’t get treated right away,” Isaacson said. “He tries to treat it with diet, he goes to a spiritualist, he goes (through) various ways of doing it macro-biotically and he doesn’t get an operation.”

Isaacson said Jobs told him he “didn’t want my body to be opened, I didn’t want my body to be violated in that way.”

“I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking, and it worked for him in the past,” Isaacson.